Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later. I curbed one of my Mugen MF-10 rims while going around a turn. Its a strange turn because I swear I had cleared the corner but the right rear rim hit the curb. It looks like someone had taken a bite out of it.

There is a 4 inch long strip with jagged edges at the out edge of the rim where it meets the sidewall of the tire. Will I still be able to get another tire mounted without problems? Or is this rim pretty much done?

 

A lot of places won't mount a tire on a damaged rim for liability reasons.

I think you will have to get a new rim myself.

 

You might be able to take it to a rim repair place... sucks that it had to be a MF-10

Craig - Who hopes to have a set of MF10's one of these years...

 

take it to a rim place...........they will be able to fix it..........my roommate fucked up his 18" momo rims.........could barely drive home on it.......and they fixed it perfectly

 

mmmm.. this is the reason I love Rotas, Kosies and other cheap *** pretty light wheels.. curb em, who cares.

 

Those Momo's were cast rims.

Mugens are forged - different story altogether

 

Right on.

 

I have two curbed rims myself. (hate running 17's) where do you go to get em fixed? I'm in Florida would I have to send them out?

 

there's a place in tampa that does it.. nto sure what the name is though.. maybe in the phone book under auto repair? not sure.

 

Dang that sucks. Know anyone selling just one bronze MF-10 w/+50 offset?
Maybe I'll just buy from King again if no one has a single to sell.
Its a good thing that I have another set of wheels.

I think I know why I hit the curb. I was looking at all the corners around town and they are all curved (rounded off at the corner) I think the particular one that I hit was had a square corner. I took it like all the other corners around town and bam. One good rim down the drain. At least I can say I'm the one to blame. I'd rather wreck my own stuff than have someone else have the fun.

 

Damn, sorry to hear that. Where in NJ did this happen?

 

daym that sux........

haha,

that's my answer to why i opt for Rota rather than the big name brands........

it doesnt hurt that much to damage a rota

 

Ahhh.. I'm running my stock wheels now.. Yesterday, I ran over a huge *** nail. About 5 inches long and a 3/4 cm in diameter. Guess which wheel it was?
Yup.. Something has it in for that wheel.. I'm not sure if the inside of the wheel was gouged up by the nail.

I also found a wheel repair shop 20 miles from my place. I was looking at pictures of damaged and the repaired wheel. It was quite amazing. A whole chunk was missing from the rim and after it was repaired it was just like new. Of course, I'll believe it after I see it for myself.